#Folks

Dismantling racism in medicine begins long before medical school & residency. The path to representative numbers of currently underrepresented minorities will not be solved with performative activism. Foundational changes, all
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So, quick rundown of the latest #Squidigation decision: It's very thorough; 36 pages of Judge Parker explaining that Powell and her merry band of fuckups lose for every conceivable reasonhttps://twitter.com/AkivaMCohen/status/1335935899
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We are live tweeting the "Homeless Strategy Committee," which is populated by four housed members including Mitch O'Farrell and a Garcetti-appointed LAHSA Commissioner.Jumping into public comment: "we want to re-allocate
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People say “why do you only care when police kill people but not when black people kill each other.” Most of those people are trolls but in case anyone has
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US alliance partners are thrilled about @JoeBiden! But should they? How do we know that USA alliance commitments really matter?Answer: we can't[THREAD]https://www.usnews.com/news/elections/articles/2020-11-07/us-allies-express-relief-af
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By this thread, I want to invoke some Nostalgia by taking us down memory lane to the late 80s and early to mid-90s when arguably the best set of indigenous
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Paraconspiracy & "fringe" culture (including New Atheism/skeptical movement) as vector for American extremism has been clear. A number of analyses of these subcultures consistently points to masculinity issues. It is
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President Donald Trump asked about deploying the military to oversee a new election in a White House meeting on Friday, according to the NYT.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/19/us/politics/trump-sidney-powell-voter-fraud.html#click=https://t
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"Kenney says Albertans should trust their regulatory system to protect the environment and ensure adequate public consultation." FAT CHANCE! Trust the regulator plagued by "gross mismanagement" & YEARS of scandals?!
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bearing in mind that there are still long hard battles to be fought, that our problems aren’t over, and that this administration will still need us to push them, let’s
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The San Francisco school board is now discussing whether to replace academically elite Lowell High School’s merit-based admissions process with a random lottery.Student delegates Shavonne Hines-Foster and Kathya Correa Almanza are
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Worried about violence during & after the election? One tech company that’s facilitating violent right-wing organizing: the walkie-talkie app @Zello, which enables armed, far-right militias to organize on their platform.
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ICYMI: 3 research reports came out in the chaos of last month — from @PrisonPolicy, @DetentionWatch, @uwchr — on the relationship bw incarceration/detention & #PublicHealth during #COVID19! I read all
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STORY THREAD Last week, my cousin experienced the beating that befell South Migirango MP, Sylvanus Osoro, in the hands of Hon. Simba Arati, when his girlfriend’s father found him inside
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I am reading Ahmed El Shamsy’s recent book on the impact of #printing on modern discourses on #Islamic scholarship. Like his previous book, it is extremely readable and insightful. I
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What is Bacha bazi? It’s a world where children are sex objects, and it’s a world where, often, the only escape is death. When the dancing concludes, the boy is
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